Western Sahara
Blogging from Western Sahara - Day 1
Tuesday 25 March 2008
 | I left a snowy, grey Newcastle morning at 6.30am to arrive at the military outpost of dusty Tindouf, Algeria, 21 hours later. Piling into a Polisario land rover along with some Catalan archaeologists who had arrived on the same flight, I felt excited about the trip ahead. Rabuni, our home for the night, was just 15 minutes away along a new tarmac road. Rabuni is the administrative and political centre of the camps. People who work there (Polisario officials, NGO workers, journalists, union workers…) live there most of the time, but travel to the camps once every week or so to visit their families. At least one flag hangs off each building, expressing to visitors the strong sense of Saharawi national identity shared by the people, and serving as a reminder of the existence of a nation in exile. |
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